Republicans, can I ask an honest question about racism

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  1. blazerboy30

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    Yes that is as well. By definition. Like you and the definitions said, racist doesn't always have to be a negative judgment.

    Just stop Denny. You're embarrassing yourself.
     
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    cracker!
     
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    Is that positive or negative judgement towards me?
     
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  4. Further

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    If Herman Cain had won the R primaries, what do you think the Black vote would have looked like between Obama and Cain in the general?
     
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    I think it's you who's embarrassing yourself.

    Everyone is prejudiced. Few of us are racist. Hopefully, anyway.

    Some of our prejudices may be racial. Again, that is not racist because there is no element of one race being superior to another. Regardless of you deleting that from the M-W definition.
     
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    Closer to the typical split in the generals: ~75% voting for the D's.
     
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    Positive!

    Salted cracker would have been negative.
     
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    97-3, Obama.
     
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    Again, you don't know how to read a dictionary. There are multiple definitions for a reason.
     
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    HAHAHA.

    Troll Denny, troll!
     
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  11. Further

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    Ya, but only cause Obama is Black
     
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd
     
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    I do not understand identity politics. It's yet another reason I am so out of step with the direction of this country. I believe in a meritocracy. The best person for the best job. Period.
     
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    So blacks are only racist in primaries.
     
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    Right. There are multiple definitions for a reason. I don't think they cover them all in the definition.

    There is racism, where one group thinks it is superior to another. This covers all the violence and intimidation by one race against another.

    There is institutionalized racism, where one group has passed laws or rules against the other(s). People today may not be racist (belief one group is superior to another), but the laws/rules still affect the targeted group.

    There is a kind of racism where society has outright been designed to favor one group. White people dominate the US population to the degree where only a energized turnout by minorities and those minorities can elect a black man as president. Or even if there is a "fair" distribution of white persons' and black persons' resumes in a stack of resumes 1000 tall, there's going to be a far lesser chance the black persons' resumes even get seen.

    Another form of racism is internalized by the victimized races. This is where a dominant culture drowns out the culture of the victimized race to the point the individuals lose their ethnic identity.

    Things like banks redlining black neighborhoods fit the second definition you abuse. The second M-W definition covers the case where police might pull over black people in black neighborhoods and issue more tickets to those people than would happen in a white neighborhood. More specifically, it is the prejudice based upon the belief that one race is superior or another is inferior.

    It simply is not racist for a black person to state that his ancestors were made slaves by white men. This black person might be talking about racism, and he (or she) is simply stating the obvious truth - that white people made slaves out of black people.

    Carry on with your silliness.
     
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    I'm coming into this way late and haven't bothered to read any of the other posts...

    When I read quotes from Reid (D-Nevada), left wing groups ("war on women" crap...), Jessie Jackson...and see the hate and racism from the left, it is really no different from the racism from the right. The differnce is that the left gets a pass from the media and therefore it creates a perception that all racists are on the right. In fact, racism is very broad and is clearly entrenched from the far rigtht to the far left.

    As far as hatred for Obama, I've heard him referred to to in very derogatory terms from both lefties and righties around here. I wonder though, just how many people mean it when they call him by the 'n' word. To be sure, some mean it in a purely racist way, but I think many mean it as a simple insult and use that word as they might any other.

    Anyway, my short thoughts.
     
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    People need to get over the past. If Jews feel comfortable living in Germany, then I don't want to hear shit about blacks feeling discriminated against when most NEVER experienced Jim Crow. Use your race or religion as an excuse, and you'll always fall short.
     
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